Friday, August 17, 2012

We survived Week One!

Well, it's Friday night and we all managed to make it through the first week. The boys have had a great time and we are slowly getting adjusted to this new routine. We started our week with the annual first day of school breakfast at McDonald's.


I have learned not to let them turn the TV on at all before all the work is done. Even if they get up super early... ( Ahem... Caleb) If we get started bright and early, we are finished by lunch time.

Here are a few of the videos we watched to help with our subjects..
http://youtu.be/byszemY8Pl8

Sam made us listen to this one over and over and over and.. well you get the idea.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx8i-Wq_jtc

and finally this one...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la40PHXDP38

We cut up globes (oranges) to see how flat maps are distorted.



We learned about drawing maps to scale and had a good time measuring everything in their room and mapping it to scale.

Library time was a big hit but that may have been because our library has Ninjago and Pokemon books.



I learned that my boys absolutely love anything that involves colored pencils but could care less for crayons. Co Op was such a hit, I think they wish it was more than once a week.

I can't wait to see what happens next week!





3 comments:

  1. Looks like a great first week, Cravens! Congrats, only like 35 to go right? You're doing an awesome thing, Momma!

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  2. Looks like you are off to a great start. Enjoy it all!

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  3. I'm so glad you guys had such a great week! I still think that map project was super cool and might steal it to do with my boys. Eventually. Hope your second week is just as awesome!

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